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Pirate Bay supporters deface MPAA site

Operation Payback continues to disrupt creative industries

Pirate Bay supporters have been up to no good again, this time defacing the
web page of Copyprotected.com, a site owned by the Motion Picture Association of
America (MPAA) which enables the reporting of copyright violations, according to
security researchers.

Security vendor Sunbelt Software explained in a
blog
post that DNS cache poisoning had been used to deface the site, which is
specifically dedicated to reporting copyright violations on DVDs and Blu-ray
discs.

The defacement includes a homepage message which reads 'Payback is a bitch,
isn't it?', alongside the Pirate Bay logo and the words 'Operation Payback'.

"Someone managed to hijack the DNS registration for Copyprotected.com such
that it points to an IP with their own web server displaying their own page,"
said security researcher Joel Lathrop.

The DNS cache poisoning attack is the latest in a long line of tit for tat
attacks on both sides of the file-sharing fence, which came to a head around a
month ago.

The attack lasted for almost 24 hours before switching focus to Indian
software firm Aiplex.com which was hired by the MPAA earlier that month to
launch cyber attacks on The Pirate Bay and other sites which had not responded
to copyright infringement notices sent by the MPAA.